Folks interested in buying #HEPA air filters: stay the hell away from #RabbitAir products!
I went to go purchase replacement filters for a RabbitAir 3, and apparently they put a stop on my order because my girlfriend received a RabbitAir MinusA2 filter kit from them (that we can't use and that she didn't order!!!). Apparently they want us to pay shipping to return it, or we can't order new filters!
Fuck this to high hell and back. I have no interest in working with a company that can "send me the wrong item" and then try to hold future maintenance of the product hostage if I don't choose to mail it back to them on my dime.
A brief run-down of my standard practice for #COVIDcautious hairdresser housecalls etc.
The client and I both take RATs the morning of the appointment. I wear a mask, I recommend the client does too (although can be tricky with sideshaves et al), and ideally we work in a room where there's windows that open for ventilation.
On nice days I've cut hair on people's decks, wind permitting. 😂
I also have my CO2 monitor, and I am considering saving up for another #HEPA filter that I can bring +
blood pressure was super-high at the MDs today. been happening on & off since i got COVID19 and it's gotten worse with #chemo.
but i've always had ridiculously low BP. so why?
since am immunocompromised, my allergies are worse. chemo left me with no lashes, so my eyes are itchy. have to take an antihistamine every night to sleep properly.
well, they dehydrate you. today i've been thirsty all day. hence, my high BP 😡
So I am in a group text with 8 high school friends ( 50 year reunion coming up!) one common theme from all of them - except me and 1 other - is “colds” “flu” bronchitis” “allergies” and “RSV”. (All self-diagnosed) Is there a gentle, funny way to remind them to wear a mask, and maybe buy a HEPA filter- I mean , the bare minimum!? I don’t want to preach you understand. #wearamask#CovidIsntOver#hepa#ventilation#flu#rsv#covid
I did the riskiest thing I have done in 3 years today especially given where
I let two people in my house to do an assessment for maintenance work that I had been pushing off for quite some time. It was do it now or lose the resource.
I asked them to wear head strap #N95. They did. They both had beards so the fit wasn't great.
I turned up the 5 HEPAs we own to full. Plus kept the furnance circulation (which has a central HEPA) running full.
I opened the windows throughout the house.
We both wore our GVS Elipse #P100#elastomerics in our own house the whole time.
I left the house empty for an hour post-vist: windows open & #HEPA cranked.
Then checked my #ARANET4 CO2 before re-entering to confirm the rate of decrease of CO2 over the hour to make sure I was getting good ACH.
Yeah, totally normal for a 46 year old Italian fashion designer, who are known to be cardio addicts🙄, to die of a #heartAttack
I am exactly his age… 46 year olds don’t die from heart attacks but I will say, if I wasn’t so cautious, I’m pretty sure I’d be either dead or pretty close to it
I asked if we could bring our @smartairUK Sqair & keep the window open, & not only were they cool with it - they thanked us for making sure the air was cleaner 🥰
Everyone here knows covid's ⬆️. What ppl don't know is how to reduce risk. This is where we can make a difference! ❤️😷
I'm getting really excited about the all virtual Clean Air Expo, it is going to quick talks from a variety of speakers, QA sessions with panel discussions, expo booths, all sorts of topics, hosted by @whn , THIS TUESDAY, Oct. 24th,- 2pm-9pm EDT, if you havent checked it out or registered, you should, so you can join us on Zoom for all or any parts, learn more/register at https://www.cleanairexpo.global/
What I am appreciating and #grateful for about #mastodon today is getting to know a few more #covid and #ventilation knowledgeable people who are trying their best to avoid Covid.
Americans have contracted over 50 million#COVID infections in the last 3 months- of SUMMER, mind you - according to a seasoned monitor of wastewater data.
That works out to somewhere between 5 million and 20 million people who will be identified as having #ChronicCOVID.
And even more who have unrealized or invisible symptoms that may result in brain damage, heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, etc.
"plan to take multi-layered precautions like using masks, getting boosters, and using remote options through January" "
My advice? Media sources & doctors who spin this as "numbers are going down! yay!" do not have your family's interests at heart & should be cut out of your diet. I can bet they weren't focusing on rising numbers when that was happening.
He estimates 40,000 [#ChronicCOVID cases per day, or 3,600,000 total, which means he's using the lowest rate possible, or 7% of infections]
The Bad News: High valley. Although a decline in transmission is always good, we're headed toward what is likely a very high valley in October at 700,000 infections per day, and then the picture will likely get much worse in November, December and January, unless we see an unanticipated level of vaccinations. Grim Implications. In the "good" times of October, we will still see 1.5% of Americans (1in 69) actively infectious at any given moment. Our low- end estimate suggests 35,000 new Long COVID cases from such infections. That's grim. Media narrative. The psychological dynamics are bleak. Expect the news media to focus on the fact that transmission is going down (the "good" news) instead of the much bigger picture that it's leveling off at very high rates (the very bad news). The over-optimism will likely undermine vaccinations and masking. The narrative should be "plan to take multi- layered precautions like using masks, getting boosters, and using remote options through January," but will more likely be "cases are headed back down." #VaxUp#MaskUp#Ventilate#HEPA#CorsiRosenthalBox#remotework
Every anti-vaxxer should be a clean air advocate. Saw the argument that "the Black Plague disappeared without a vaccine". This is misleading as it is still in existence, it just doesn't spread like it did because we figured out how it spreads, and then made the proper changes.
We know how #COVID spreads, #COVIDisAirborne, so if we clean the air via #HEPA and #UVC, and #WearAMask, we stop spreading it –and that means those who don't want to get vaccinated will be more protected.
"higher residential PM2.5 levels, especially from agriculture and wildfires, were associated with higher rates of incident dementia, providing further evidence supporting PM2.5 reduction as a population-based approach to promote healthy cognitive aging."
I need to buy some HEPA filter systems for my house. We've been running a Corsi-Rosenthal box in the area where my elderly relative in hospice lives with us due to healthcare workers coming to the house, and this has been working. But now they need around-the-clock care, and we will have many more people coming here and staying here all the time.
We were thinking if we could find HEPA filters that are relatively quiet, and that we would set up multiple of them around the house. It might not work for us to stay covid-free, but we're trying to do the best we can.
Does anyone have recommendations for these types of filters, that would be good for covid and other viruses, and relatively quiet?
Hey #CovidIsNotOver people! I start a new job tomorrow (fully in person) & am a little nervous about keeping myself safe. Here’s what I’ve got in my toolkit:
I’ll only eat outdoors, weather permitting; otherwise I’ll find a private room & run the purifier before unmasking. I will use #NasalSpray several times per day.
When a team of doctors, scientists and engineers at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the University of Cambridge placed an air filtration machine in #COVID19 wards, they found that it removed almost all traces of airborne SARS-CoV-2.